>Rod, > I must to agree with yours consistent arguments but you forgot the > most important thing: Holden hates the religion concept and in special > the christianism. Remenber when he meet a christian boy ( a tennis > enthusiast) in the Woolbridge(?) College? That's the point! > True, though I have my questions about what it was holden hated there, i'll look it up. but it's necessarily the most important to this teachers question. I was more useing Holden to illustrate my point about "christian standard" being too diverse, but rather "christ standard" being much different. personally, I agree that the question "SUX" the hard one. But it's no big surprise somebody would get that question. On explaining CitR to my class, my dear old english teacher, Ludmilla, had to first inform us that it was "blasphemous" and then went on to tell us that Slaughter-House 5 was mainly a "man's book" and the girls in the class should probably not read it (exactly how she came to that conclusion I have NO idea actually. maybe it's my limited brain capacity but I really didn't see anything in SH5 that should even have scared dear old Ludmilla so bad). We weren't actually assigned those books. The school said they had to be available but she STRONGLY recommended we read The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird instead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "And forget, don't regret to find love and happiness, Unless you are willing to be strong when they're gone, Along the Way" - Bad Religion